Do rental agents discriminate against minority customers? Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study

Seok Joon Choi; Jan Ondrich; John Yinger

doi:10.1016/j.jhe.2005.02.001

Do rental agents discriminate against minority customers? Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study

Seok Joon Choi, Jan Ondrich, John Yinger

Department of Public Administration

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This study examines the incidence and causes of housing discrimination in qualitative treatment by rental agents, using national audit data from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study. Using the fixed-effects logit method described by [Review of Economic Studies 47(1) (1980) 225-238], we control for unobservable factors that are shared by audit teammates and conduct hypothesis tests for the incidence and causes of discrimination. We find evidence that rental housing discrimination has declined since 1989 but continues to exist in several important types of housing agent behavior. We also find evidence that this discrimination is caused by agents' own prejudice and by their response to the prejudice of white clients.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-26
Number of pages	26
Journal	Journal of Housing Economics
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2005.02.001
State	Published - Mar 2005

Keywords

Audit
Fixed-effects logit
Housing discrimination

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Economics and Econometrics

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